And we continue!

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Chapter 5

Emily was sitting on the train floor, as she watched the city pass by. It seemed so peaceful, compared to the Dauntless. It seemed so beautiful, the peace that was unlike her own life. It seemed so calm, unlike everything else.

She took off her glasses and stared at it, analyzing every little part of it. It wasn't broken or anything, and it was just in one, whole piece, even after all these years. Emily sighed as a voice right next to her asked, "What are you doing?"

It was Jessica. At this rate, her voice was starting to become familiar (and a little annoying) to her. Emily put her glasses back on and said, "Nothing, just bored."

It was the wrong answer. Jessica's face seemed to brighten as she nearly yelled, "Let's play a hand game! It goes like..." She began to indicate how the game was played, and Emily was about to yell at her; to tell her to shut up, at least, until she realized that Jessica was once Amity. This was normal for her. She just had to deal with it until the instincts were all gone.

So as Jessica was chatting and talking, Emily just nodded like she understood, and and stared out the window, thinking about the issues in her life.

"I think we're here." Jessica said to Emily, who saw the doors of the train open. They were greeted with a view of the roof of a building, and it was covered in gravel. The Dauntless in front of the train were jumping off, and the roof was coming closer and closer...

And then it was in front of them. They saw how big the roof was- but then the building ended in what looked like a sudden drop. But they weren't thinking about that- their goal was to jump off the train and to somehow make it on the roof, which was far, far away.

They all seemed to just stare at the roof, and time seemed to slow down as well, at least, until an Erudite nearly pushed them out of the train and jumped out himself. He seemed to jump with grace and agility, and Emily was curious. An Erudite, a person who spent all their life surrounded by books, jumped with grace and agility. This was new.

Finally, all of them began to jump off the train with nervousness. They had to go quickly now, since they were just frozen with shock before.

Jessica and Emily seemed to stare at each other. "I'm not going alone." Jessica said, her brown hair flying wildly in the air.

"I'm glad we have similar minds. I'm not going alone either." Emily replied as they seemed to hold each other's hand without thinking. They took a look at each other, and jumped off of the train.

It was a wonderful sensation. The wind was blowing right in her face, but she appreciated it. The feeling of falling, but going forwards at the same time, was an unusual feeling that she liked. But it was over in a mere three seconds, and Emily rolled on the gravel to prevent herself from getting injured.

Jessica, however, wasn't so lucky. She landed right on her palms, and it left her skin peeling off of the palms of her hand. She cringed when she saw the skin, but saw Emily and managed a smile. "Well, I suppose this isn't even an injury in Dauntless. I'll live." she said.

"Yeah, well, want some nectar?" Emily asked. "I'm pretty sure I can give up a bit."

"No, it's fine." Jessica replied, standing up. "I don't want you to waste it." She seemed fine now, other than the fact that her hands were all injured.

"Well, then, let's go join them. I think they're ready to do something." Emily said, fixing her glasses as she walked over (without Jessica) to the group of transfers and Dauntless. It was like trying to blend in an ocean of darkness, but Emily didn't mind. She managed to squeeze between most of them before reaching the front of the group.

The Dauntless leader was standing on a ledge, and Emily felt like a cold hand was squeezing her heart. She was the girl in her dream, the one with the nearly white hair. But she looked perfectly happy in her Dauntless clothing, her posture perfect, and her voice loud and clear.

"Welcome to Dauntless," she began. "My name is Katarina, but you can call me Kat. I am a Dauntless leader, and I see that you have passed the first test- jumping off a train. You will now have the second test." She pointed at the blank space behind her. "This is the entrance to Dauntless. If you are brave enough to jump off this ledge and into the pit, you will immediately be part of our initiation, and you will be able to see what happens in Dauntless."

There was silence when one of the Candor boys asked, "You want us to jump off this ledge, and into the pit that's somewhere down there?"

Kat replied with a simple, "Yes."

Emily didn't know how she felt. Some of the other transfers were asking other questions, but she felt like staying silence would help her. However, she still felt that cold hand that was still gripping her heart, and it was a combination of being terrifying, as well as exciting, at the same time.

Finally, there were no more questions for the transfers to ask, and Kat stepped off of the ledge, and asked, "Who would like to jump off first?"

There was silence as Jessica and Emily shared a glance. Go, Jessica seemed to say. Emily began to protest with her eyes, when Jessica gave her a shove, and she was forced to go first.

Kat smiled. "Excellent. I take it that you know what to do."

"Yes, I do." Emily replied, stepping on the ledge. She looked down and saw nothing but darkness. There might be water down there, or something else. But no time to think about what was down there now. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and counted to three. When she got to the number three, she took off and felt that wonderful sensation of falling and moving again as she fell into the pit.

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